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The January 2013 Leadership Development Carnival: Best of 2012 Edition

Great Leadership By Dan

Welcome to The January 2013 Leadership Development Carnival: Best of 2012 Edition! favorite, most popular) post from 2012, along with why it was the best. What can leaders learn from the makers of fine cognac? This post begins by considering the 400 year forest management plans that produce trees for making cognac barrels.

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The July 2012 Leadership Development Carnival

Great Leadership By Dan

Welcome to the July 2012 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival ! Part One: From Wayne Turmel , The Connected Manager blog, here's Why WebEx is like Soylent Green. Art Petty , from his Management Excellence blog, presents Just One Thing: Always Add Clarity to Challenge.

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The May, 2012 Leadership Development Carnival

Great Leadership By Dan

Art Petty presents The Cruel, Bitter And Crushing Taste of Dump Truck Feedback , from his Management Excellence Blog. Last month's Carnival host, Tanmay Vora , from QAspire Blog , presents Lifelong Learning: Lesson from a Cab Driver. "I David Burkus from LeaderLab presents Why Most Managers Are Ineffective? Jennifer V.

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Imperfect Leadership

Coaching Tip

Successful management is the result of understanding and accepting your own humanity. In a 2012 study of 361 top-level executives from 53 countries, by the Center of Creative Leadership, 19% of respondents stated that leaders are born to lead, while 52% believed that leaders are created; 29% said that both factors are equally important.

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8 Things Collaborative Leaders Know

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Anyone can be collaborative leader—whether you are the CEO, a mid-level manager or a front-line supervisor. In their 2012 global workforce study, Towers Watson found 46% of workers are not engaged. Instead of seeing your role as providing answers, learn to ask really good questions. Learn to tolerate ambiguity.

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From The Bench To The Boardroom

Eric Jacobson

The book (co-authored by Dick Weiss ) chronicles Michael’s story of going from an underdog athlete to a turnaround CEO, and how he took his student-athlete experience and translated those learned lessons to successes in his career. As a basketball player, Michael learned teamwork, courage, adaptability, and much more.

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Challenge Up: A Key to Organizational Integrity

Marshall Goldsmith

This is relatively easy to understand; it is just hard to do. Warner Burke has pointed out that “knows how to influence up in a constructive way” scored last place on managerial effectiveness in all items when people evaluated their managers in NASA – immediately before the Columbia space shuttle exploded.

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